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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 451-464Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2006-02504-0
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Thermal photon production at mid-rapidity in Au+Au reactions at root(NN)-N-s = 200 GeV is studied in the framework of a hydrodynamical model that describes efficiently the bulk identified hadron spectra at RHIC. The combined thermal plus NLO pQCD photon spectrum is in good agreement with the yields measured by the PHENIX experiment for all Au + Au centralities. Within our model, we demonstrate that the correlation of the thermal photon slopes with the charged hadron multiplicity in each centrality provides direct empirical information on the underlying degrees of freedom and on the form of the equation of state, s(T)/T-3, of the strongly interacting matter produced in the course of the reaction.
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